Business continuity
Keeping critical services running, or restoring them quickly, through disruption.
Overview
Business continuity and operational resilience rules require firms to identify important services, set tolerances for disruption and test their ability to stay within them.
It connects most directly to Incident response and DORA.
Check the official sources below for legal scope, applicable dates and exceptions. This entry is an explanatory reference, not legal advice.
Why it matters
Regulators now judge resilience by outcomes for customers, not by plans on paper.
Who it affects
Financial firms, utilities and critical infrastructure.
Where it sits
Ten linked steps connect where you operate to the proof that you complied.
- 01Jurisdiction
- 02Industry
- 03Activity
- 04Authority
- 05Regulation
- 06Requirement
- 07Guidance
- 08Control
- 09Evidence
- 10Enforcement
Connections
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What to do about it
- 1Define the owner, frequency, data and pass condition.
- 2Automate the test on source data where you can.
- 3Capture evidence on every run, including exceptions.
- 4Review exceptions and failures and record the decision.
From requirement to evidence.
Continuity tests and results are mapped to every resilience regime that applies.
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